Re: [Puppet Users] how to trigger puppet run on agents remotely

Andrei-Florian Staicu
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:11:17 -0000

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Nishant Jain <nishant.citrix@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>                           I am looking for a way to trigger puppet rum
> remotely. so that i don''t need to login into individual nodes and
perform
> the puppet agent --test from there.
> Is there any alternative to puppet kick in puppet 3.0, since its being
> deprecated in telly.
> Also , can anybody tell how to configure foreman 1 to trigger puppet run
> from the gui in puppet 3.0
> I have puppet 3.0 installed on RHEL 6.
>

My 50c: since mcollective is still fuzzy for me, i ended up using pssh
(with ssh keys, of course).
Just pssh -h hostlist -i "puppet agent --test"